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Group
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Two or more people who, for longer than a few moments, interact with and influence one another an perceive one another as "us".
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Co-actors
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Co-participants working individually on a noncompetitve activity
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Social facilitation original
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The tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present.
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Social facilitation current
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The strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others.
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Evaluation
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Concern for how others are evaluating us
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Social loafing
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The tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable
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Free riders
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People who benefit from the group but give little in return
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Deindividuation
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Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad
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Group polarization
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Group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members' average tendency, not a split within the group
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Social comparison
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Evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others.
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Pluralistic ignorance
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A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding
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Groupthink
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Decision-making groups to suppress dissent in the interests of group harmony
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Leadership
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The process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group
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Task leadership
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Leadership that organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals
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Social leadership
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Leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict and offers support.
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